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Discerning the culture of compliance through recreational fisher's perceptions of poaching

Abstract
- Compliance is critical for effective conservation, and non-compliance regularly negates the desired outcomes of the world's marine protected areas. To increase compliance, practitioners must understand why resource users are breaking the rules, why these behaviours continue to occur, and how to effectively confront non-compliance. This study interviewed 682 recreational fishers of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park (GBRMP) to examine the social components of compliance management. These components included fisher's perceptions of non-compliance, or poaching (defined here as fishing in no-take zones), as well as the beliefs, attitudes, normative influences, consumptive orientation and perceived behavioural controls that may influence fisher's decisions to poach.
- External link to download this item: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2017.12.022
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Date
- 2018
Author
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Bergseth, B.J.
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Roscher, M.
Author(s) ORCID(s)
- Matthew Roscherhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-3408-8763
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Type
- Journal Article
Publisher
- Elsevier Ltd